The classical Persian rug vocabulary was codified across the long Safavid and Qajar centuries in workshops from Tabriz to Kerman, the medallion and arabesque patterns that the European interior absorbed beginning in the seventeenth century. This rug works the neutral side of that historical palette.

Three weavers sat the bench for 5 months, working in coordinated rows. Around 1.0 million knots, each one tied by hand against a vertical beam. The wool is fine-micron New Zealand fleece, the long staple chosen because it spins to a smooth, even yarn that takes vegetable colour without the patchiness that lower-grade fibre produces. Dye work followed the slow vegetable method passed down through generations of dye masters: madder root for the reds, fermented indigo for the blues, oak gall and walnut for the brown family.

The composition

The composition runs in black across the field with corner work that turns the eye back inward. The dye registers will move with light and traffic. A vegetable-dyed pile is not a finished surface; it is a starting point that the next twenty years complete.

What you are buying

£3,999 is the democratic entry point to hand-knotted collecting, a tier the workshop produces for buyers who want serious hand-tied work without the auction-grade premium. The labour content alone, distributed across the bench time on the loom, anchors the figure.

The piece in a room

4' × 4' (122 × 122 cm) is the working scale for a study, a smaller seating area, a bedroom with the rug under the bed turned ninety degrees so it shows on three sides. The black answers warm timber as readily as it answers stone or polished concrete.

Conservation

Half-turn rotation twice a year. Suction-only vacuuming, weekly. White-cotton blotting on any spill, never rubbing. A wool-trained conservator should hand-wash the rug every five years to keep the dye registers fresh. With this discipline the rug runs a century in continuous household use.

Reference

• Medium: hand-knotted New Zealand wool on cotton foundation
• Dimensions: 4' × 4' (122 × 122 cm)
• Construction: Persian asymmetric knot
• Knot density: ~180 KPSI
• Total knot count: ~1.0 million
• Hands: 2-3 weavers, 5 months
• Pile: 12 mm wool, low-twist plied yarn
• Dye: vegetable (madder, indigo, walnut, weld)
• Origin: India

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